Sanitary built-in clean-out



June 29 1926. 1,590,504

H. L. GOTTESBUREN ET AL SANITARY BUILT-IN CLEAN-OUT Filed Feb. 23, 1924 FIG'. j. FIG'. 2.

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INVENTOR5 HENRY L. GOTTESBUEN.

JOHNB/ JOYCE.

ATTORNEY I A i Patented June 29,1926.

`UNI-TBI) vSTATES 1,590,504 PATENT orifice.

HENRY L. GOTTESBUREN .AND JOHN P. JOYCE, 0F KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

SANITARY BUILT-IN CLEAN-OUT.

Application :Bled February 23, 1924. Serial No. 894,4'2'6.-

.The invention relates to an improved sanitary built-in clean out for continuous vent and waste pipes, for lavatories, sinks, urinals and the like.

Waste pipes from lavatories, sinks, urinals and the like frequentl become obstructed with foreign matter,. ooding the room in which they are located with water.

The usual method of cleaning the waste pipe is to apply Water or air pressure and attempt to force the foreign matter through the pipe, but there is less resistance in the vent pipe than in the waste pipe and the air or water is forced? up the vent pipe and fails to remove the obstruction.

As plumbing has heretofore been installed it has been found impossible to pass any' thing as a wire through the pipe owing to the impossibility of disconnectin the pipe at a point that will admit of passing a wire or the like into the pipe.

The present invention has provided an improved built in clean' out for continuous vent and waste pipes which may be opened and a wire or the like passed up the vent pipe and down the waste so that any foreign matter which may obstruct the pipe may be forced therethrough. v 1

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter set forth and more articularly pointed out in the appended 'claims7 the accompanying drawings illustrating a form of the sanitary built in clean out.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a fragmentary plan view of a building showing a portion of one wall which is broken away to illustrate the location of the vent pipe, ordinary fixtures in the building are also shown.

Fig. 2 is a. vertical section taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1, with certain parts shown in full view.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of Fig. 2 with certain parts shown in sectional view .that are shown in full View in Fig. 2 owing to the reduced scale of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on line 4--4 of Fig. 2 and is the same scale as the latter figure. l

The floor 1, wall 2, bath tub, wash basin 4, drum trap 5, drum trap lid 6, washbasin trap 8, branch waste pipe 9, vent pipe 10,

T shaped connection 11, and waste pipe 12 and 12L are all of common and well known construction and shown merely to illustrate the use of the improved sanitary built-in clean out; it being understood that the vent pipe 10 and waste pipe 12 and 12a form a continuous vent and waste ipe.

The improved T shaped iI-itting 13 is located within the Wall 2 and connected to the waste pipe 12 and 12"L and provided with the removab through the opening formed by the frame 15 built in the wall 2, by removing the cover plate 16 which is secured in closed position y the screws 17.

The T shaped fitting 13 is provided with the shoulders 18 and 19 which the upwardly extending section 12 and the downwardly extending section 12a of the waste pipe respectively abut, so that there is no obstruction to prevent the passing of a wire through the opening 20 and through the vent pipe 10 or the waste pipe 12 and 12 when the lug 14 is removed.

When t e branch waste pipe 9, or the waste pipe 12 and 12'* becomeobstructed, the usual method is to applyv water or air pressure to the end 21 of the branch pipe 9 within the basin 4, which usually forces the obstruction upwardly into the vent pipe 10 or downwardly into the-waste pipe 12 and 12a. In either case it is cften necessary to remove a portion of the wall 2 and remove .the pi e in order to remove the obstruction.

Wit the improved sanitary built-in clean out it is onl necessary to remove the cover plate 16 an theplug 14 and ass any instrument as a wire, flexible ro or iiexible tube or the like upwardly through the vent pipe 10 and downwardl through the waste pipe 12 and 12. In eit er case the obstruction may be forced through the pipe.

The improved sanitary built-in clean out reduces the cost of plumbing bills and obviates' the usual subsequent carpentering, plastering and repapering bills, as it elimmates the tearing open o the wall and the removal of the ipes.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In household plumbing, the combination of a hollow wall having an opening communicating with the hollow thereof, an upright waste pipe within the wall, a branch waste pipe entering the wall and connected with the upright waste pipe, a T in the upright waste pipe, a short boss on e plug 14 which is accessibles. ai);

the T having e lei-ge bore opposite the open ing' in the wall ancl n removable closure for the boss within the Wall.

2. In household plumbing, a hollow wall having ui opening communicefing with the hollow liei'ein, a removzible cover plate closing uid opening, a Waste pipe Within the hollow of the wall, a branch waste pipe entering the wall above the opening and connected with the waste pipe, ev vent pipe lending upwardly from the waste pipe, a 'l' in the waste pipe having a, lateral opening opposite the cover plate and e removable closure for said lateral opening behind the removable cover plete.

8. In household plumbing, the co1nbina tion of a, hollow wall having an opening communicating with the hollow therein, e

removable coverplate closing' seid opening,

for said an upright pipe. enclosed Within the hollow wall, e drain entering `the Wall adjacent to the opening and connected with the pipe, a 'll' in the' pipe presenting a large opening opposite the opening in the wall sind a removable closure for said T 'Wholly within the wall.

4:. In household plumbing, the combination of a hollow wall having an opening communicating with the hollow, e removable cover plate for said opening, a pipe enclosed within the hollow Wall, a drain entering the well adjacent to the opening in the wall and connected with Seid pipe, a, T

in said pipe having a lateral opening oppo site the cover plate and a removable closure lateral opening. HENRY L. GOTTESBUREN. JOHN P. JYCE.. 

